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November 2001 JUG Meeting:</h2>
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Triangle Java Users Group Presents:</h3></center>

<p align="center"><font size="5">Embedded Java Development and Tools</font>

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<p align="center"><b>presented by</b>

<p align="center"><b>Marc R. Erickson</b> of <b>IBM Corporation</b><br>
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<b>Bruce Hyre</b> of <b>Object Technology International</b></p>
<p align="center">Monday, November 19th, 2001

<br>6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

<p align="center">LOCATION: MCNC Auditorium

<br>3021 Cornwallis Road

<br>Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

<p align="center">919.248.1800

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<b>Abstract:</b><br>
Marc Erickson will focus on how to use IDE for embedded and discuss new developments in Java tooling.  He will also focus on a project that IBM is working on involving automotive development work for Telematics systems.  Several demos will be available during the presentation.
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  <b>About Speaker:</b><br>
Starting with work that established the first direct customer technical support center, Marc has been a key participant in several international innovations from IBM. This has included improvements automating the way IBM predicts failures and pro-actively delivers product maintenance to our largest customers.
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As an architect for IBM's Corporate Information Officer, Marc created the first standards for internal database deployment using Lotus Notes. He has won recognition twice for innovative Lotus Notes solutions for IBM.
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<p> Marc now serves on the ANSI committee studying standards for the software development process, and represents IBM on the Java Community Process Executive Committee for J2ME.
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<p> Now in his 28th year at IBM, Marc was recently the senior technical lead for IBM's North American Workflow Competency Center in Raleigh, North Carolina. A graduate of Southern Illinois University holding a degrees in Data Systems Management and Data Processing, he joined IBM's subsidiary, Object Technology International, as Project Manager in 1999 to focus on the embedded computing marketplace.
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  <b>About Company:</b><br>
IBM  (International Business Machines) is the world's top provider of computer hardware. The company makes a broad range of computers, including PCs, notebooks, mainframes, and network servers. It also develops software (ranking #2, behind Microsoft) and peripherals, and derives about 35% of sales from an ever-expanding service arm that is the largest in the world. IBM owns software pioneer Lotus Development, maker of the Lotus Notes messaging system. Subsidiary Tivoli Systems develops tools that manage corporate computer networks.
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  <b>Format:</b><br>
The talk will last about 60 minutes (Q&A will follow)
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AGENDA:</h3>
6:30 pm - Meet, talk, snacks
<br>7:00-7:15 - Announcements, Status of JUG projects
<br>7:15 - 8:15 - Presentation
<br>8:15 - 8:30 -  Discussion with presenter
<br>9:00 - Doors close

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DIRECTIONS to MCNC:</h3>

<b>From Raleigh:</b>

<br>Take I-40 West toward Durham and Chapel Hill. You will enter RTP. Where

I-40 splits, bear right onto the Durham Freeway North (Highway 147). Take

the Cornwallis Road Exit. At the end of the exit ramp, bear right - cross

back over the Freeway. MCNC is located approximately 3/4 mile on the right.

<p><b>From Durham:</b>

<br>Get on the Durham Freeway South (Highway 147). Take the Cornwallis

Road exit. At the end of the ramp, bear right - MCNC is approximately 3/4

mile on right.

<p>Click here for <a href="http://trijug.org/mcnc/?/directions.html">map with

directions</a>, or visit the <a href="http://trijug.org/mcnc/?/gotomcnc.html">MCNC

web site</a>.

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